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I am gradually getting convinced of two things: one, all this ozone rattling by various COPs is getting us nowhere; and two, that economists do not live on the same planet that you and I do. This was brought home to me conclusively last Sunday night when I was listening to Ruchir Sharma being interviewed

Something curious seems to be happening in my home state, Ulta Pradesh or Attar Pradesh, depending on whether you are standing on your head or breathing deeply in Kannauj. The curious part does not refer to the Yogic Yogi doing the 100 meter sprint behind the Prime Minister’s bullet proof car on some expressway or

INDIA’S LONG WALK HOME Edited by Ishan Chauhan & Zenaida Cubbinz Published by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. 2021. Rs. 595.00 About once in every generation, an event occurs which is so tectonic in its scope and intensity that it cries out to be chronicled for posterity. Not merely recorded or reported by news media and television

Mr. Ranjan Gogoi, who earlier graced the Supreme Court and now adds gravitas to the Rajya Sabha ( when it functions, that is, or when he attends it- both of which are seldom) has come out with his statement for the defence in a book titled JUSTICE FOR THE JUDGE. For the last few days

An article in The Guardian recently caught my attention. It had comments from doctors and nurses in the UK saying that most of the patients admitted to the ICUs with Covid or Covid related issues were those who were unvaccinated. They lamented that anti vaccine protesters held out on supposedly religious or pseudo-scientific grounds for

As one keeps piling on the years ( I am now at three score and eleven ) one also imbibes some wisdom along with the evening pegs. And these days there is no better fount of wisdom than our seraphic Prime Minister who persists with casting his pearls before the swine even as they have

Four years after the Delhi High Court first recommended the name of advocate Saurabh Kirpal for appointment as a judge, a three-member Supreme Court Collegium has finally approved the proposal. While this step itself is very welcome, one needs to wait and see what the final outcome will be and whether he is eventually appointed,

In the midst of battling Delhi’s Air Quality Index, one of the worst in the world, I have been thinking of the hold traditions have on our lives. Let me begin by sharing that one of my favourite musicals is “Fiddler on the Roof”, set in rural Russia in the early 20th century. With its

I belong to a generation weaned on the liberal arts, and for whom the three Rs meant Reading, Writing and Rithmetic, not Ramrajya, Rashtrawad or Rohingyas. Very early on in my life I decided that the sciences were not for me, and reaffirmed this by consistently failing in Maths from Class VI to Class XI.